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Photos & News Clippings
Photos & News Clippings
The Mecca Lakeside Zoo was owned and operated by Orla Drum through the 1950s and 60s. The Mecca Barn stands on the present location on Rt 46.
East Mecca Park, known today as Mecca Circle
Top: The 1880 Dr. Brown House and Mail Pouch barn just off of Mecca Circle.Bottom: The Red Brick Beauty north of the circle on Rt. 46.
The Fowler General Store was also known as the Mecca Trading Post, Circle Inn, and had many other names and purposes. Built in the 1830s, it still stands at Mecca Circle.
Above: The bridge over Mosquito Creek looking from the east side of Mecca to the west.
Top right: Noble Mason, early settler and first school teacher in west Mecca.
Bottom right: The Daniel Bates residence. Built in 1901, it still stands near the northwest corner of Rt 88 and Phillips-Rice.
Top right: Noble Mason, early settler and first school teacher in west Mecca.
Bottom right: The Daniel Bates residence. Built in 1901, it still stands near the northwest corner of Rt 88 and Phillips-Rice.
Alanson McCullour1814-1901Early settler
Lathrop & Jennie Boon Palmer with son Frank (center) in front of their house.
Squire Nathan Palmer1811-1882Justice of the Peace
Lucretia (Abell) Palmer1819-1897
William Johnson
1844-1898Trumbull County Representative,Civil War veteran, farmer
1844-1898Trumbull County Representative,Civil War veteran, farmer
George Boon
1820-1899Farmer
1820-1899Farmer
Martha (Clark) Boon
1829-1909
1829-1909
James Jacob Winans
1838-1919Civil War veteran, farmer, and sawmill owner
1838-1919Civil War veteran, farmer, and sawmill owner
John Cisney Armstrong
1830-1916Farmer, donated land for the United Presbyterial Church on Bazetta Rd.
1830-1916Farmer, donated land for the United Presbyterial Church on Bazetta Rd.
Martha (Kier) Armstrong
1833-1893
1833-1893
William Kier Armstrong
1866-1940
Farmer and Carpenter
1866-1940
Farmer and Carpenter
Vestina (Winans) Armstrong
1867-1952Hotel Manager
1867-1952Hotel Manager
The intersection of route 88 and Bazetta Road looking east. The store building at left is the present location of Monty's. From the 1874 Trumbull Co. Atlas.
West Mecca School in 1918. Leah Harris is standing in the back row, third from right. She met her husband, John Winans Armstrong, who was the "bus driver" and took students to and from school by horse and buggy. She graduated that spring and the couple married that winter.
Students in front of the central school building. Leah Harris is in the front row, second from left.
The Mecca centralized school was built in 1927 and razed in 1943 to make way for Mosquito Reservoir. The bricks of the old building can still be seen off the north side of the causeway at low tide.
Central School Building, East Mecca, in 1907. Built in 1904 with two similar schools, one to the east and one to the west, they were tore down in 1927 with the construction of the consolidated school in the center of Mecca.
Residence of John F. Klumpp, built in 1850. Ernest Falkner once lived there. It still stands today on Rt. 46 across from Governor Farms.
Lachman House was originally a grocery and notions store. It later operated as a hotel known as the Wheel Inn and still stands at Mecca Circle next to Cones & Coney's.
Residence of Hermen Love, built in 1866. It still stands south of Mecca Circle on Rt. 46. It remained in the Love family until 2003.
Mecca Community Church in 2000, just north of Mecca Circle on 46. It was originally built by the Freewill and Congregational Churches. Dedicated in the fall of 1842. It was moved to Hiram College in the 2010s.
Dr. John Love lived in East Mecca and operated a store and undertaking business at the present location of Monty's.
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